White Woke Folks Learning Hard Lesson

Vincent J. Curtis

10 Feb 21

RE: School Board will reconsider sanctions

Woke progressivism: it’s coming for you.  Yes, even those woke progressives who think they’ve got immunity - you just have to be lower on the hierarchy of victimhood than your accuser.  In this case four white women are lower on the scale of victimhood than a teen-aged woman of colour.

There is no institution more ridiculously progressive than the School Board, yet four female trustees are accused of racism.  The men on the board were smart enough to steer clear the accuser, who is a “woman of colour.”

We also see the “drive-by” technique, used by the media to take out public people, being applied in this case.

Thinking they were beyond reproach, the Board foolishly allowed an intellectually corrupt investigator to prepare the prosecutors case against the selected members of the Board.  The investigator could not logically establish a case.  There was insufficient corroboration, i.e. a case of she said –she said on the accusation that one of the four used the N-word in private to describe tennis star Serena Williams; but where corroboration was lacking, corruption supplied the crime.  The investigator corruptly held that saying “all lives matter” was racist and inciting, even though it isn’t and the accuser isn’t Black.

So we have this continuing farce where analysis is not permitted, and the charge of racism is left to stand unchallenged.  No public discussion is allowed on whether the investor erred in deciding that the statement was racist.  The narrative switches to a discussion of the punishment the four female trustees, all of whom are white, are supposed to receive.  And silly people like Steven Del Duca are obliged to say silly things.

Elected officials are accountable to their constituents, not to investigators, newspapers, students, or various riff-raff.  The electors hold their representatives accountable, and no one else.

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Impeach!

Vincent J. Curtis

9 Feb 21

RE: Group ramps up call for removal of trustees.  Hamilton Spectator of this date.  A continuation of the saga of racism at the Hamilton Wentworth District School Board.

There’s the sublime, the ridiculous, and then there’s the School Board.  Attacking the Board is group that follows the classic tenets of the Marxist hive.  The front has an heroic name, Hamilton Students for Justice, but it has no history, no membership list, no board of directors, and for all we know consists of one person, its spokesperson Gachi Issa.

Composed of high school student(s), the hive knows nothing, but, inspired by the ill-fortune of Donald Trump, has called for the impeachment of four members of the School Board.  Impeachment and removal is not a Canadian thing, but when you’re just throwing mud against the wall you’ll try anything that might stick.  They don’t even know that a process of recall is what is used in America to remove most elected officials.

Now we know that the four wicked people on the Board were all women, and all becomes clearer.  The women treated student trustee Ahona Medhi like one of the girls, and that was their mistake.  Medhi expected to be treated like a princess, and instead was treated as an eighteen year old.  The men did not make that mistake.  But now we hear the cacophonous cry of stinking fish all around the province.

The farce has been exposed.  It wasn’t white male racist supremacism that’s at the root of the issue, but hurt feelings caused by expectations not being met.  Time for this issue to go away.

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Massive Arctic Cold freezes Global Warming Theory

Vincent J. Curtis

9 Feb 21

Ever see a .50 caliber bullet ricochet off armour plate?  Watch how these bullet points bounce off.  According to the CBC:

-          A mass of cold air arrived on Sunday, setting daily temperature records in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

-          According to Environment Canada, 22 cold-weather records were broken throughout the three provinces.

-          The coldest temperature was recorded in Uranium City, about 1,045 kilometres northwest of Regina, where it was –48.9 C, breaking a previous record of –40 C set in 2019. 

-          In Alberta, the lowest temperature was recorded in Fort Chipewyan, about 710 km northeast of Edmonton, where it was –47.3 C, breaking the previous record of –45.6 C set in 1936.

-          Edmonton International Airport was close to breaking a daily record. The temperature reached a low of –43.8 C, with the previous record set on the same day in 1994 at –43.9 C. 

-          In Manitoba, the temperature was a bit higher — but not by much. The community of Roblin, about 405 km northwest of Winnipeg, set a new record of –42 C, breaking the previous record of –40.6 set in 1972. 

The climate crazies have assured us for the last quarter century that the polar regions are the most affected by global warming, and particular weather phenomenon were caused by “climate change.” So, how do they explain record cold from the Arctic?

After being pent up all winter, Arctic air has been released in a massive blob over the prairie region of Canada, and has reached deep into the United States.  This record cold is fatal to the global warming theory.  But ask the professional climate crazies to explain this record cold?  They don’t; they can’t, and they’re never asked.

Facts like these bounce off climate crazy foreheads like armour plate had replaced cranial bone.

It’s another one of those things they have to ignore or laugh off because it doesn’t fit the theory.  But keep this in mind next time you hear of a scientist claiming that crickets chirp louder because of climate change.

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Marxist Hive harasses city budget deliberations

Vincent J. Curtis

8 Feb 21

RE: Bringing justice to city budget deliberations.  Hamilton Spectator Op-ed of 6 Feb 21.  Written by “The Just Recovery Coalition” a group of non-profit organizations in Hamilton ‘advocating for a fair and equitable recovery from COVID -19.’  Specifically the non-profits are: The YWCA Hamilton, Hamilton Social Planning and Research Council, Environment Hamilton, Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction, The Disability and Justice Network of Ontario, SACHA, Hamilton ACORN, Hamilton Center for Civic Inclusion, Hamilton Community Legal Clinic, Spectrum, and Hamilton Community Benefits Network. Notice how innocuous-sounding the names of these groups are?

What could be more unserious than a Marxist hive arguing about justice, equity, and investment?  The Just Recovery Coalition is just such a Marxist hive spouting the latest globalist nonsense out of Davos.  Build Back Better! 2SLGBTQQIA+!

Let’s straighten out the Hive’s circular definition of justice.  Justice isn’t ‘the practice of assessing the fairness of relations between individuals and groups.’  If you define just as “based on what is morally right and fair,” then you’ve just contradicted yourself.  It’s one or the other; but in fact justice is neither.  Justice isn’t a kind of assessing, and what exactly is morally right and fair depends too much on one’s conception of morality.  A Muslim finds it perfectly moral to enslave a Christian or to kill a Jew.

Justice consists in treating equals equally and unequals unequally.  There are courts of justice and courts of equity.  Courts of Justice administer and apply the law, and everyone is equal before the law. An example of a court of equity is a bankruptcy court, where creditors are assigned the spoils of a ruined company.  Equity is intended to be a kind of corrective justice.

Hence, when the Hive speaks of justice and equity, they cloak the equity they seek with the respectability of justice.  They seek the spoils of city taxation for their purposes, which have nothing to do with justice, properly understood.  True justice requires that the imprecations of the Hive be ignored.

It’s about spending the people’s money.  Governments don’t “invest,” Marxists; governments spend.  Pressuring the people’s representatives to spend money on your pet projects is undemocratic.  But then, you’re Marxists; to hell with the wicked, white taxpayers who are responsible for all the injustice in the world!  By screwing them, we get the corrective justice we seek!

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Pandering to Big Mo

Vincent J. Curtis

8 Feb 21

RE: The Hamilton Spectator once again sucks around Big Mo in an editorial.  It complains about Quebec’s Bill 21, as if the suppressed rights of English speaking Quebeckers no longer mattered.  But having accepted that, it forms a precedent.

“Why won’t PM defend Quebec minority faiths?” the Spectator asks plaintively, as if it didn’t know.  For balance, the editorial also drags in Erin O’Toole and Jagmeet Singh, who, of all three, ought to be the most exercised over Bill 21.  Hint: it has to do with Quebec’s 75 Commons seats and the great popularity of Bill 21 among Quebec’s majority French population.  Unlike English Canadians of urban areas, Quebeckers aren’t suffering from a crippling loss of cultural confidence.  Quebec will remain French because the French culture and French language are good, and under threat.  Quebeckers aren’t going to wonder whose province Quebec is.

“Nor has anyone convincingly explained why wearing a religious symbol and responsibly performing a government job should be mutually exclusive.”  What if that religious symbol is a swastika, as it is to a Buddhist?  Maybe the Jews will take offense.  Maybe Lebanese Christians will take exception to their public servant wearing hijab.  The wearing of a mask - speaking of offensive religious symbols - will defeat communication with a lip-reading deaf person.  Wearing symbols won’t affect the person doing the job, it is the people around them who may be affected, and that matters too.

Finally there is the court challenge.  No one who is into mask-shaming and supports punitive lockdowns has any business whinging about infringed Charter rights.  Bill 21 invoked the Notwithstanding Clause and still courts pretend jurisdiction over it.  A farce of power-grabbing,

Vive le Quebec libre!

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Canadians sacrifice while China burns - coal, that is.

Vincent J. Curtis

6 Feb 21

As reported by Breitbart News, the U.S. based Global Energy Monitor and Helsinki based Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air found that in 2020 China built 28.8 gigawatts of coal-fired electrical generating capacity.  A further 36.4 gigawatts of capacity was approved for construction in 2021.  China presently has 88.1 gigawatts of capacity under construction, and a grand total of coal-fired generating capacity under development of 247 gigawatts.

By comparison, Ontario boasts 40.6 gigawatts of total generating capacity from all sources, and only four percent of that total comes from sources that create CO2.

The point here is the scale, and the scale of growth.  Every year, new Chinese coal-fired electrical generating capacity approximates Ontario’s total capacity, and their new planned capacity when finished will be more than six times Ontario’s total capacity.

It raises the question of why Canada is making such sacrifices to reduce her own puny contributions to world CO2 emissions?  Canadian sacrifices will be more than replaced every year by additional CO2 emissions from China!

Sure, Canadian politicians can put on moralistic airs and vainly strut about the world boasting how good they are at making Canadians sacrifice for the good of the planet, but what is the use?  Ask Justin Trudeau about Chinese construction and he’ll answer moralistically that good Canadians need to sacrifice for the good of the planet.

These sacrifices are all in vain!

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Progressives applaud suppression of Proud Boys

Vincent J. Curtis

5 Feb 21

RE: Let’s hope Proud Boys are over.  Editorial, Hamilton Spectator of today’s date.

It is clear from reading the editorial that the writers don’t believe what they’re saying.  They say that Proud Boys are, in fact, a terrorist organization, but the evidence to support it simply isn’t there.  Terrorist explode bombs, bring down airliners, and assassinate public officials.  The intent of these actions is indeed meant to achieve a political goal, but, disregarding the fact that the Proud Boys have done none of these things, what political goal have the Proud Boys announced as their aim?

There isn’t any.  So far as I can tell, they are group that is more cultural than political, and their political goal, insofar as they have one, would be congenial to the 75 million people who voted for Donald Trump.  This isn’t exactly terroristic, that is, if you can put aside your progressive daggers for a moment.

The one claim, that they may have been involved in the breach of the U.S. Capitol building on January 6 (spare me the Democrat- inflated rhetoric about insurrection!), admits, inter alia, that Trump actually didn’t incite an “insurrection”; it was planned beforehand.  So, which is it?  Trump or pre-planning, you can’t have it both ways!

Antifa and Black Lives Matter fit the description of terrorist organizations far better than the Proud Boys.  They do have political objectives, and Marxism-Anarchism-Nihilism is my summary of their motivation and methods.  They are anti-democratic in aim and method.  Anti-democracy is an overthrow of the current system.  The Proud Boys were organized as a satire on Antifa and BLM.  You tell young men often enough that they are the root of all evil in the world, that they are irredeemably racist, that they a specially privileged on account of their white skin, and hold white supremacist views whether they realize it or not, is bound to produce a reaction.  In this case, some of them apparently said, “Okay, that’s me.  I’m wearing it proudly.  Screw you.”  This isn’t how real terrorists work.

For some reason, modern woke progressivism needs an enemy.  In the Proud Boys it created a real one where none existed before, except in its fevered imagination and fraudulent intellectualism.

It was gratifying to progressives that bully-cop thug Bill Blair, who became a Minster of the Crown, struck at a hated enemy while ignoring Antifa and BLM.  But you should realize this tears at the Charter of Rights, and follows on the terrible rending of the Charter with all these COVID edicts and decrees.  The Charter was written precisely to be observed in times like these, and the Charter has been reduced to a dead letter.  Those who push back are deemed enemies of the people, selfish and foolish and who are going to kill people.  You know the groups: Hugs over Masks, Rebel News, merchants in open in defiance of closure decrees, anti-lockdown protesters.

The description of how the Proud Boys came to be named terrorists, involving due process and intelligence reports, is bullshit.  Stop regurgitating the propaganda of The Man.  They were so named the same why Julie Payette was named Governor General, at the inspiration of Justin Trudeau.  What wiretapping was done to gain that alleged intelligence, and was it legal?  Did the government have a warrant?  Who was named on it, and what was the alleged crime?  Take a step back, and you can see that something isn’t right in that claim, or in the claim that they can appeal the decision.  How can a group appeal, when the government seizes its bank account, which contain the means by which it can buy the legal assistance?  Aren’t the individuals named as members subject to arrest, since they are, after all, terrorists, and must therefore have committed actual crimes?  Again, step back, have a smell, and analyze what’s being said.

It is hugely gratifying to progressives that government power was used to strike at an organization it doesn’t like.  But what goes around, comes around, and progressives may regret applauding these exercises of government power when someone else takes political control.

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